1. HELPING CHEMISTS FIND JOBS IN A TOUGH MARKET. 2. TOWARDS A QUANTITATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE QUALITY OF THE CHEMISTRY JOB MARKET.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Daily Pump Trap: 4/23/15 edition

A few of the recent positions posted on C&EN Jobs:

Santa Fe, NM: This "Director of Global Scientific Support" position at OpenEye is very interesting - it's like a combination of computational chemist and customer service. Ph.D., 3 years with customer-facing work desired.

A broader look: Monster, Careerbuilder, Indeed and USAjobs.gov show (respectively) "1000+", 1359, 9248 and 19 positions for the search term "chemist." LinkedIn shows 562 positions for the job title "chemist", with 84 positions for "analytical chemist", 23 for "research chemist", 5 for "organic chemist", 3 for "synthetic chemist" and 1 for "medicinal chemist."